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Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted from the long-run Blondie
comic strip by Chic Young. The radio program had a long run on several
networks from 1939 to 1950. After Penny Singleton was cast in the title
role of the feature film Blondie (1938), co-starring with Arthur Lake as
Dagwood (the first in a series of 28 produced by Columbia Pictures);
she and Lake repeated their roles December 20, 1938, on The Pepsodent
Show starring Bob Hope. The appearance with Hope led to their own show,
beginning July 3, 1939, on CBS as a summer replacement for The Eddie
Cantor Show. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor,
R.J. Reynolds' Camel Cigarettes chose to keep Blondie on the air
Mondays at 7:30pm. Camel remained the sponsor through the early WWII
years until June 26, 1944.
In 1944, Blondie was on the NBC Blue Network, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive's Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7pm from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with Blondie's return to CBS on Sundays at 8pm from August 13, 1944, to September 26, 1948, still sponsored by Super Suds. Beginning in mid-1945, the 30-minute program was heard Mondays at 7:30pm. Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8pm from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949. When Penny Singleton left the radio series in the mid-1940s, Patricia Lake, the former Patricia Van Cleeve, replaced her as the voice of Blondie for the remaining five years of the show, opposite her real-life husband Arthur Lake. Ann Rutherford and Alice White were also heard as radio's Blondie. In 1954,Lake also co-starred with her husband in an early television sitcom he created called Meet the Family.
In 1944, Blondie was on the NBC Blue Network, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive's Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7pm from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with Blondie's return to CBS on Sundays at 8pm from August 13, 1944, to September 26, 1948, still sponsored by Super Suds. Beginning in mid-1945, the 30-minute program was heard Mondays at 7:30pm. Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8pm from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949. When Penny Singleton left the radio series in the mid-1940s, Patricia Lake, the former Patricia Van Cleeve, replaced her as the voice of Blondie for the remaining five years of the show, opposite her real-life husband Arthur Lake. Ann Rutherford and Alice White were also heard as radio's Blondie. In 1954,Lake also co-starred with her husband in an early television sitcom he created called Meet the Family.
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